Hummm, that's very possible. I'm using iptables and I did tried somethings with them... I'll see what's happening when I get home from work. Thanks a lot... :) I'll then tell you if you were right. Cheers, Paulo Matos On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 03:22, asterr wrote: > I have seen this when iptables is running and pings are not permissioned. > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I have a server running 2.6.2-rc1, and I was happily installing > > vpopmail and reading the vpopmail gentoo guide (www.gentoo.org). Somehow > > (don't ask me > > why) every net connections seem to stop and get blocked. Now I cannot > > make any socket connection. For example: > > > > # ping localhost > > PING descartes.geniousdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. > > ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted > > ... > > > > Any ideas on how to unblock the situation? > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > > > Paulo J. Matos : pocm [_at_] mega . ist . utl . pt > > Instituto Superior Tecnico - Lisbon > > Computer and Software Eng. - A.I. > > - > http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~pocm > > --- > > -> God had a deadline... > > So, he wrote it all in Lisp! > > > > - > > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > > -- Paulo J. Matos : pocm [_at_] mega . ist . utl . pt Instituto Superior Tecnico - Lisbon Computer and Software Eng. - A.I. - > http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~pocm --- -> God had a deadline... So, he wrote it all in Lisp! - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
